today is my second day at pilates. my workout schedule went from a conservative 3 days at the gym, to now 5 days with this 2 days a week class. i'm not sure if it is the lack of sleep i've been getting since i'm trying to come in earlier, or its because of those no rest days in between that is making me feel weaker at the gym. pilates is great stuff though. my abs and obliques were sore in places that i can't really target when i'm doing my own routine at the gym. i have been coming to work on fairly regular times in the mornings. and i have been very productive at work the last few days. feels like a good change up. i hope to continue at this pace.



today is also my second day at bible study. from the bible study i'm used to, it feels more like a class....actually more like a section for a class. it also feels different because i'm actually interested in the material rather than the brainless routine feeling i got when i used to do it in high school. going to church twice a week feels like it comes a little too soon, even though all throughout my jr high and high school i had been going to church twice a week.



i was watching this program on discovery about savants....like the movie Rain Man. They can do extrodinary things, but can't do simple tasks. well, there was this guy on there that was saying that everyone is capable of savant like abilities. and that savant like abilities come from a lack of inhibition from the brain. so if we can control this inability to inhibit, we can tempraily enable things like photographic memory, or simply free up the tremendous ability parts of the brain that mostly gets inhibited when too many things are going on. and he demonstrated 2 ways to control how we inhibit. fatigue the side of the brain. or try to consciously control the blood flow to different parts of the brain. i'll throw my own theory in this one. could this mean that our ability to learn and enhance our learning abilities on a tasks we accel at depend on how good we are able to remove inhibition. when we say we are "thinking", are we trying to concentrate more on the subject, or are we subconsciously controlling the blood flow in our brain (to remove inhibition) as we have learned to do when doing particular tasks? this idea works for how some people (me included) can express them selves more creatively when i'm half asleep. and the same theory applies to artists who can only become artistic when under the influence of a substance. i really love cognition. shows like this inspire me and make me want to go back to school. i really think i can do some amazing world changing things with my thoughts on cognition and neural networks (my specialization).



i also want to get back into computer programming again. i really loved programming in high school. when i came into college, they bored us to death with nonsense recurse programs using pointers to pointers to pointers that just drove me absolutely insane. that just made me really hate programming while i was doing it. but when it comes to writing something of interest, i think my love for programming and creating a working machine is still there. i have a good grasp in c, and planning aloghrithms, but what i want to do is write windows applications rather than command line scripts. and i have no clue on that. i'm sure its pretty simple with the right headers, compilers, and knowing what functions to use. maybe i can pick up a good book for that somewhere. i'll have to ask around on recommendations for one. maybe i'll invest some times at barnes and noble this weekend finding a good book. i hope it doesn't cost too much....